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The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
Our Wealthy Men.

Much has been said in newspapers of
men who have made large fortunes in
comparatively few years in various
business industries. Many of these
articles are written by correspondents
of prominent newspapers, and copied
into others of lesser note. COrrespOn-
dents generally are seldom men of bust
ness qualifications and wrongfally
picture these men and their business as
a thing of accident; this is not the case
with those we have met. We find that
where men have made large fortunes by
their own business talent and industry
they chose with sagacity and fore
thought such businesses as would lead
to success when handled with business
judgment. No man has been brought
before the public as an example of sue
cess, both in wealth and magnitude of
his business (Outside of stock and rail-
road men) more prominently than DIR.
C. c. Green of Woodbury., N. j. He is
at the head of many large business in
dustries. and yet comparatively young
man. When the fact that August
Flower, for dyspepsia and liver COM
plant and Boschee's German Syrup, for
coughs and lung troubles, has grown to
a wonderful sale in all parts of the
world, it proves that it was not an ac-
cident or spontaneous strike at wealth.
His medicines are recognized as valua-
BILE and established remedies and the
business has grown gradually and per-
manently during the last eighteen years
on account not alone of DR.. Green's
abilities as business man or his 'good
luck" but on the actual merits of the
two preparations.-COpied from, the N.
Y. Weekly Sun, of Dec. 20, 1856.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The associate dispatches inform us
that Jacob Sharp, on trial in New York
for bribery, is dying. 1t was expected
that Sharp would take the witness stand
and attempt to explain away his crook
edness, and all were surprised when his
counsel rested without calling the de-
PENDANT to the stand. Sharp's attor-
neys say when they told him to prepare
to take the stand they found that be
was a physical, wreck !; his physicians
declare he win never live to reach Sing
Sing If convicted. How true the text
1.-THE way of the transgressor is hard ~
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
It is a. Useful Law.

The Pacific Railroad investigation is
furnishing instructive proofs of the
value of the Interstate Commerce
Law. At the Omaha sitting of the
Commissioners on Thursday, informa-
ton as to the rebates given to the
Standard Oil Company was secured.
The explanation was that the railroad
thereby secured fifty per cent. of the
transcontinental transportation of the
Standards product.
However satisfactory this defense
may be from the railroad point of view,
it in no way gives the Standards COM
petitors the fair chance they are entitled
to, and which the new law secures them.
The Standard Oil Company must stand
credited with being, probably, the most
powerful single instumentality in the
country in producing the Interstate
Commerce Law. A number of suits
against railroad companies on account
of favors shown to it, were on the
dockets when the bill was passed. They
illustrated with peculiar force and in
various ways the abuses to be corrected.
Another point emphasizing the value
of the law, was brought again to the
public attention on the same day, at
Omaha, by the exposition of the item
of the Union Pacific accounts, showing
a pool payment to the Pacific Mail
Company for maintaining higher rates
from New York to San Francisco than
it would otherwise have charged.
The editor of the Omaha Bee yester-
day testified before the Commission
that the U. S. Marshal for Nebraska
and his deputies ride on free passes
over the Union Pacific Railroad and
charge the Government 10 cents mile
for every mile 50 travelled, and that
they have done so for years. Evidence
was also submitted that the total
amount of rebates and overcharges paid
by the Union Pacific to the Omaha and
Grant Smelling and refining Company,
between Sept. LIST, 1888, and April LIST
last, was S57, oil ,226, and that the total
amount of dividends paid to Fred L.
Ames and Sidney Dillon by the Smelt-
ing Company during the same period
was $50, 900 each.-N. Y. World.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
Controller Trenholm has visited Gin

Controller Trenholm has visited Gin
cinnati with view of applying to the
case of the Fidelity Bank the statute
authorizing suits against directors of
banking institutions that violate the
law. The Controller of the Currency
believes that he has good case under
this law against the directors of the
defunct institution, and that a good
example will be set by prosecuting
them. Mr.. Trenholm does not think
that the consequences of the failure
viii be as widespread as sensationalists
have predicted. He says that the
number of depositors who win lose is
small, that the majority of them can
afford to stand the loss, and that the
effect of the Cincinnati disaster on
eastern banks will be slightly. Y.
Star.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
Remar} able Transmission of Dip
liberia.

We are really informed that party
in the Fourteenth ward of this city
took some clothes that had been en-
ployed about patient that had been
afflicted with the diptheria, and threw
them over u chicken coop the other
evening to air. When the family came
into the coop the next morning all of
its inmates were found dead. The
dead fowls had black marks on their
Threats in each instance. And a whole
brood of young chicks perished i'll the
same way.-SaH Lake Nelcs.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
$50, 900, 900 Bushels.

The Garden City Sentinel, which has
a habit Of getting at the bottom of sub
jects relating to Kansas resources,
gives US the following chapter on corn:
Year before last we raised 1876, OOO, 900
bushels of corn in Kansas. That was
by far the best we have ever done.
Last year was short crop on account
of drouth, and amounted to only 1884,
OOO,O bushels. But this year all
signs indicate a big crop, and the acre
age planted is much larger than ever
before. .t..
Good judges estimate that the crop
of corn now growing will yield not
less than go, 600, 900 bushels. This is
prodigious, but the facts as they now
stand warrant the prediction, and the
great railroads are hurrying up their
construction forces to get ready to
transport the enormous surplus to
market. Of course much of this corn
will never be hauled to market, be-
cause it will be fed to hogs and cattle.
But this will rather increase than di-
minish the amount of railroad bust
ness, since the cattle that consume
the corn and fatten on it are mainly
grass fed and derive most of their
weight from grass alone.
The hogs also to a considerable ex-
tent make their growth upon grass and
clover, alfalfa, artichokes, dairy slOps
and other waste farm products and the
corn only comes in to fatten them. So
in point of fact the amount of freight
to be sent by rail as a result of the corn
crop will be enhanced by the amount
fed to these grass fed animals.
Now the building of these numerous
lines of roads, involves the paying out
of millions of dollars for labor, material
and right of way as well as for feeding
the armies of laborers SO employed, and
hence it is plain that business is bound
to be active during the remainder of
the year. When the crop is harvested.
no matter how low the price may be, it
viii put money in circulation and con-
tinue the boom.
All persons of an arithmetical turn
Of mind, can amuse their friends and
employ their leisure hours by calculat-
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer, the editor OF
the New York World, does not appear
to entertain profound respect for Mr..
Charles A Dana, the editor of the New
York San, for in recent issue of the
World he characterizes the last named
gentleman as a "blackguard, lost to
every sense of decency, coward and a
liar" And yet the newspapers of the
metropolis disparagingly refer to the
lack of culture in 1.-The rowdy west"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Canada in doubling the export duty
on logs caught good many United
States lumbermen on the hip, as ii
were. One party of Americans cut
$4,000, 900 feet of logs in Canada last
winter, which they were about to tow
to Michigan, when Sir Charles Tupper's
edict made them change their minds.
They have now sold the logs to another
party who will saw them up in Canada
and pay the United States duty on
lumber to get the product on this side.
And this duty increases the cost of
lumber. How long is this unjust and
needless taxation to continue.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Our officials may be hasty and incon
siderate at times, Ito err is human, ,
but that is no excuse for the feeble at,
tempt at riot last night, law and order
must be maintained at any cost. 1t Is
to be hoped that this is the end Of any
more like demonstrations, If the
marshall or any police officer make any
mistakes, and overstep the bounds of
reason, it is not in keeping with good
citizenship to make unlawful threats
or breaks, there is proper way of
reaching and bringing to time any over
jealous officer, without our citizens
going on record as violators Of our
laws.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

All the testimony taken thus far in
the investigation of the Randall's
Island Asylum for the Insane is cumula-
tive as to the heartlessness, brutality
and cruelty of the attendants. If one
half told of these men be true they de-
serve the most serious punishment
A man who would from any cause use
force in dealing with a mentally help.
less and irresponsible ward of the city
deserves to be imprisoned for life.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

world. IN this way several thousand
operatives. villa are willing to WORK, find
the door closed against them. 1t is all
important to It e prosperity of the great
shoemakine Industry of the East that
every possibl. expedient should be en-
ployed 10 secure to former employees
the means of earning livelihood at
their trade In this crisis a warm
hearted az I'd liberal policy will prove to
be true e ,onomy.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

ing how many cars would be needed to
haul $50 million bushels of corn to
market, reckoning 400 bushels to the
car load, and how many trains of
twenty cars each would be required,
how many miles such trains would
extend, and how many hungry men it
would feed if made into bread-or how
many drinks if made into whisky, with
other ingenious and interesting partic-
ulars dd ibit,nn.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

President Cleveland has selected for
appointment as cadets at large to the
Military Academy the sons of two very
distinguished officers, one of the regular
army and one of the volunteers. He
could not have found better types of
the respective branches of the service
than the two persons he has compli-
mented, Governor Palmer and Colonel
Conrad.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
Boy With the Big Head.

Yes, if his pa VII give him rope.
He'd give suggestions TO the Pope;
He thinks that nature gave him birth
To twirl the axis OF the earth
And when he walks along the street
He spins the world round with his feet
But still we ike the little Ounce
We used TO be Just like him once
We know it's ourselves, most dread,
The little boy with the big head
He gives advice with generous hand.
And sows il broadcast DER the land;
He tears up like sapling shoot
The tree of knowledge by the root.
He's never in the dark OF doubt,
Like Moses when the light went out;
He volunteers, though none may call,
To show mankind he knows IL ali;
When he dies then is wisdom dead
The little boy with the big head.-Tid-Bits-
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Up to July 1st, 1887, there had been
1854 miles of railroad built in the
United States since January last, 500
miles more than was built during the
year of 1885. Of the 1854 miles built
this year, the Santa Fe system alone
built one sixth of that amount. 1t is
estimated that there will be nearly TO-
900 miles of track laid in the United
States during the year of 1887.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The action of the G.. A. RS OF
Topeka coupled with the other evidence
of narrow mindedness that is manifest
ed on every possible occasion gives the
capital city the undisputed right to the
claim that she possesses more cranks in
proportion to her population than any
other city in the United State.-EG.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

When an exchange copies an article
from the REFLECTOR. and fails to give
us credit, as long as they credit nc
other paper with the article, we don't
object, but when the Topeka Capital
copies long article from the REFLEC-
TOR columns, like our editorial on the
advantages to be derived from the
Santa Fe road, and credits it to the
Abilene Gazette, we kick like govern
mept mule.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Chairman Haskell, of the Republican
State Committee, of the state of New
York, complains that there is want
of harmony in his party, in that state.
Haskell and political papers have
abused the so-called Mugwumps, till
they are driven into the conservative
Democratic party, and that is what
troubles Haskell.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
According to the report of the Ne,

According to the report of the New
York Produce Exchange, the visable
supply of grain in the United States
shows decrease of 1884, 900 bushels of
wheat, 745, 900 bushels of corn, 27S, OOO
bushels Of oats, s,4Ss bushels of rye,
and 1880 bushels of barley Of the
41,217 900 bushels of wheat in sight,
over 5000. 600 bushels are afoat and in
transit, leaving about 35, 600, 900 bushels
of visible in store.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The queen of Holland presented a
remarkable gift to the king on his 10th
birthday. The ladies in waiting car
ried in an immense bouquet, which
they placed before His Majesty. The
king was greatly surprised, when sud-
denly the top of the bouquet opened,
and the head of his infant daughter
pGeped out of the flowers.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

From now ON till November next,
men will be seen injuring themselves in
their frantic efforts to escape the Office
that is seeking them, with tears in their
eyes they will be saying: Il don't
want the office, but my friends insist
on my accepting, I must yield or make
everybody raving mad"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
The Knights of Labor have suffered

The Knights Of Labor have suffered
a more severe check in the settlement
of the strike at Worcester than they
have received through the return of
the New York silversmiths to their
work shops. The Massachusetts, situa-
ton is very distressing. The Knights
who have struck find their places filed
in the great factories, such as Becheld-
or's, in Brookfeld, which is said to be
the most extensive shoe factory in the
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

We hope that we may be pardoned
for asking just how long the Republic
can party propose to allow a Democrat
to reside in Kansas. We would like
time enough to pack our collar before
having to move.-Seneca CO,aier-Denl-
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

A Philadelphia paper says Senator
Sherman and the hot wave reached that
city at the same time. Senator Ed
munds should have been sent for to re-
duce the temperature. He carries a
cold wave with him.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Lord Rosebery is taking great in
terest in the plumed Knight, of America.
The Lord is his guide in looking up the
sights in London. If the Knight is
elected President, no doubt the Lord
will be invited over to attend the
Inauguration.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Kansas leads all other states in the
Union in the amount of railroad con-
structed from January LIST to July LIST,
of this year. Kansas built during that
time 692 miles, Texas comes next with
4S9 miles. Of the states, New Jersey
is the lowest, having only built five
miles.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The total collections of internal rev.
enue during the first eleven months OF
the fiscal year ending June 80, were
sos, 665, S91, or 81 ,561, 1886 more than
the collections during the correspond
ing period of the previous fiscal year.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Boulanger is to have some kind of a
demonstration on the 14th inst. The
French people desire to show that they
disapprove of his removal from the
Office of War Minister.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
The Illinois legislature has made it ;
misdemeanor to sell tobacco to minors

Two hundred thousand dollars OF
school money now rests quietly in the
state treasury, seeking investment al
5 per cent, and no bidders. Topeka
Commonwealth.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Mrs. Langtry is going to California
for a divorce from Mr.. Langtry. BY
the way, not many have ever heard of
Mr.. Langtry, but it seems there is
such an individual somewhere.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The action of the -Atchison authori-
ties in depriying the city of IRE protec-
ton, is likely to kick back" If Atch-
ison should have a confiagration just
now, tar and feathers are proposed for
its ''smart alec" council. State Jour
~
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The Pittston pa Gazette says: 1.-The
Ransom Poor Farm has Is acres of the
finest corn in Lackawanna county,
If a Kansasite should pass along by a
sixteen acre patch of corn, he would
ask who that little garden belonged to.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

An exchange says: at was quite
unnecessary for DR.. McGlynn to say he
has no intention of becoming a second
Luther. The first did not start out I'M
der the crank, Henry George"
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The total assessed value of the rail-
road property of Kansasis Sal ,53S, 9O4.-
So, as against So, 424, 9S6.6S for last
year, an increase of S9,1O3, 96s.15 in
one year. The total mileage of the
railroads in Kansas is 5000, an increase
of ,691 miles over last year.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Would it not be good thing for our
CITY fathers to pass an ordinance re-
curing every grocer to throw in gratis a
bottle of cholic drops with each peck of
green apples sold.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Senator Cameron says he will posi-
lively not talk politics at this time.
Almost q million Americans should
follow his example during the next ten
months.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

The deliberate judgment of young
Americas that an old fashioned Fourth
of July celebration without liberal
supply of firecrackers would be 1raud.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Senator Evarts is reforming and no
longer exceeds one hundred words in
single sentence. Now ordinary people
can read his speeches with some degree
of comfort.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Jacob Sharp. the briber, Is AZ years
old. A moderate sentence would Do
eouivolent to imprisonment for life.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07
HENRY LIFTS, Editor.

Abilene is still booming wy ahead
of surrounding towns.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Ex-Judge Wilson, of Washington
county, has sold his property and VIII
seek a new location
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-07

Boquet for July 6th-Immortality is
too great to be proved.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-03-04

CORRECTED EVERY THURSDAY BY W. c. HARRISON
;s21 SOUTH FRONT ST, PHILADELPHIA.
BUrrER-P rime PRINT SOC to sc: fair roc TO &c
roll lSe to 2nc; common Sc 10 Toe perth Egg lie
TO lse. per doz.
DRESSED PoULTRY-Fowls. l2c 10 lac per 10:
chickens. l6c 10 lsc per lb bIilers. Doc 10 nc:
ducks lic to l4e per H., turkeys. lac To ljc pen
10, geese, lie 10 lie per ID.
SrocK-Calves 5c TO SC per lbs sheep &c 10
SC per III; lambs &c to Sc per 10.
fEATHERs-1ieese choice slJe. 10 soc per H..
duck 25e to 2sc per n; turkey &c 70 se per lb
chicken &c to +c per III.
wooL--washed &c 10 sc per lb unwashed
3ic TO d per H.
G. NME-Sqnabs zoe to i5c per pair; pigeons ;GiC
10 Toe per pair; snapper> Sc to Toe per lb
terr1tpin, counts, $500 "a Sl6-1 per doz.
bulls and hcifers. Si.du To Si-t1 per doZ =
Ducks black head. 10c to sac per pair; red head
II - ia S.l9; teal, joe to Sc.
FRESH FIsH-rocb, lOc 10 lSc per III; perch
white Sc To igc per H.: catfish, 1oc To l2c pa
H.: pike sc to Ice per H.; shad, roe, ~sajoo 10
OYSTERS. Extra. =. 10 to $500 per 1870: Prime
$500 to SEQ per 1909: calls 500 Ia SEQ pea
Isn0 CLAIMS, - on to $500 per 1904
DRESSED PoHK.-Iight,1l To Sc per Id: heavy
: to re per ID.
FRUIT AND Y EG ET BL Es--Apple>, choice, sits
to 81 per bbi: fair, -. 80 To 81 ~ sweet pota
Toes, extra, Sl..0 10 S2,0O per hbl; prime. 81 >
to n. 20 per bbL: cull~ 79c 10 laa per bhi: cab
hage :. 40 to 800 per 100 heads: onions. - ,
to s2..1 per bhl; Clstnberries, dark, $40 TIA 500
per crate light. s2.Vp To - = per crate; beans
lima - 90 to $50 per bU>hel; kidney, Sis Il
- 90 per bushel; medium. - y Ia Si-,0 POTATOES
Rosee 60c 10 ~ per buShel; Mammoth Pearl
soc to ale per bHShsi.; Main Rose seed. SEQ pei
huShrl.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-03-04

Quinton is to have new lumber yard.
4 canning factory has been started in
Daretown by lIitchner d 3icbman.
A colored man is running independent
for Freebooter in the East Ward, Salem.
Judge Robert NJ Hitchner has laid out
a new street in Elmer which he has named
Commerce street
The pupils of Miss Mamie Elton's school
at Union Grove. will give an entertain
ment this evening.
The Upper canal Bridge is open for
travel 1t has been off since July 1885.
The new bridge is a substantial pivot
bridge and costs $4400.
\ home talent entertainment will be
given in AlIoway. tomorrow evening.
The proceeds will be used for the benefit
of the recently started library.
Daretown seems likely to have a boom
in the building line. And why should il
not grow and prosper? 1t is in the heart
Of rich agricultural district, and among
a people that have no superiors for intelli-
gence and sociability. A number Of quar-
ter-acre building lots Were sold there on
Saturday week from the property Of the
Presbyterian church, realizing from Sl02
to $50 each